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...With a potent Harvard offense in place that stacks heavy hitters up and down the lineup, the onus falls on the pitching staff to hold up its end of the bargain. “If you just look at our lineup, we have nine guys who can swing the stick,” Haviland says, “so it’s going to depend on not just how our weekend starters pitch but also the guys that are coming out of the bullpen.” If a clear collection of starters and relievers can emerge from...
...saying, ‘Lance, let’s go! You can get this guy!’”Salsgiver credits a counterintuitive, decidedly un-Harvard approach to his summertime success. He was aggressive rather than patient: “thinking less” and swinging with a former confidence.Following the summer, he was tempted to join classmates Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff in signing professional contracts and ending his time in Cambridge prematurely. He engaged in brief negotiations with the Oakland A’s, San Diego Padres, and Cincinnati Reds before ultimately returning...
...natural ease and comfort that the cast demonstrates—kicking, twirling, and shimmying in stilettos—is a true testament to their hard work and practice, and the moves are no basic steps from a beginner’s dance class. The dances involved swing moves, complicated lifts, line dancing that put the Rockettes to shame, and gyrations worthy of John Travolta in “Grease.” In the finishing number, the actors even go into a parody of “Swan Lake”—en pointe...
Caught off guard by the mayhem and powerless to stop it, U.S. officials could only offer general expressions of optimism. "Obviously it's a blow," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists as her plane crossed Iraqi airspace after a five-day swing through the Middle East, "but whenever someone tries to tear them apart, [Iraqis] find a way to get back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government...
...year to ban most abortions. The Supreme Court may soon reveal which way it's leaning. It has agreed to hear a case challenging late-term, or "partial birth," abortions. The court last weighed in on this topic in 2000, narrowly striking down a ban on the procedure. The swing vote: Sandra Day O'Connor...